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Novels by Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Library of America presents in one giftable collection all 5 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels—including The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novels permeated by his own history as well as America's. In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to his ancestor's involvement in the Salem witch trials, as he follows the fortunes of two rival families, the Maules and the Pyncheons. The novel moves across 150 years of American history, from an ancestral crime condoned by Puritan theocracy to reconciliation and a new beginning in the bustling Jacksonian era. Considered Hawthorne's greatest work, The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. The transgression of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the innate lawlessness of their bastard child Pearl, and the torturous jealousy of the husband Roger Chillingworth eventually erupt through the stern reserve of Puritan Boston. The Scarlet Letter engages the moral and romantic imagination of readers w

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Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press, c1983.

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780940450080

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.13 / 5 (412 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14